A Salt Lake Tribune editorial Sunday takes issue with Gov. Gary Herbert's Healthy Utah program having a work requirement. "This should be a basic benefit in life in the developed world," the editorial says of health care.
Healthy Utah is a substitute program for Medicaid expansion. Herbert's plan would help place those on it into jobs. Now, is that such a bad idea? If I understand it correctly, Gov. Herbert isn't requiring anyone to go out and get a job on their own in order to qualify for Healthy Utah. Instead, it puts the onus on the state. Utah has to find them those jobs. I don't believe Herbert's plan rejects anyone, unless it says they must accept the work offered them in order to qualify. But, if you don't have a job, and someone offers you a job, that is a good thing. Why would you turn it down? Healthy Utah comes to benefit people in two ways, giving them health insurance and giving them jobs. I believe Herbert's work provision a wonderful thing. I only wonder if the governor is chewing off more than he can eat, for it can be a hard thing to place people in jobs. If it were as easy as that, wouldn't we have 100 percent employment?
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